Re: [DebianGIS] freezing gdal and notes about gdal 1.4 and its deps

[Daniel Morissette <dmorissette@mapgears.com>]

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Currently, mapserver and qgis still use C++ and I doubt qgis would
> move to the C interface before 1.0 release. I have no hints about 
> mapserver. I will kindly follow-up to both dev teams about that,
> whenever possibile. 

FYI this issue keeps coming up and our plan is to move MapServer to
using the C interface for version 5.0 (in the first few months of 2007).

You can add yourself to the CC of bug 545 to keep track of progress on
that front: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=545

Daniel